Chronological archive
January 2022
The 89 news items published by Hands Off Cain in January 2022, in chronological order.
DRC: 51 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN MURDER OF UN EXPERTS BY A MILITARY COURT
A military court in the Democratic Republic of Congo sentenced 51 people to death on 29 January 2022, several in absentia, as well as a 10-year prison term and two acquittals in a mass trial over the 2017 killing of two UN experts in Kasai, central DRC.
JANUARY 31, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: 10 SENTENCED TO DEATH ON CHARGES OF PLANNING ATTACKS
An Egyptian court on 30 January 2022 sentenced to death 10 members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood group for coordinating and planning attacks on the police, the state-news agency MENA has reported.
JANUARY 31, 2022TennesseeDEATH PENALTYUSA - Tennessee. Pervis Payne Resentenced to Concurrent Life Terms
Eligible for Parole in Five Years After 34 Years on Death Row
- JANUARY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammadreza Afaridoun executed in Zahedan on January 30
JANUARY 30, 2022Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTYMYANMAR: MORE THAN 100 SENTENCED TO DEATH IN YANGON SINCE COUP
Myanmar’s junta has condemned more than 100 people to death in the Yangon region alone since it seized power a year ago, Radio Free Asia reported on 27 January 2022.
JANUARY 30, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mehrdad Karimpou and Farid Mohammadi executed in Maragheh on January 30
On sodomy charges
- JANUARY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Nasser Sohrabzehi Executed in Zahedan
JANUARY 29, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Hossein Kaveh executed in Rasht Prison on January 29
JANUARY 27, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: KARACHI MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH IN WIFE’S MURDER CASE
A model court has handed down death sentence to a man for burning his wife to death over a domestic dispute, Dawn reported on 26 January 2022.
JANUARY 27, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: BIHAR POSCO COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH FOR RAPE OF SIX-YEAR-OLD
A special court under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act on 26 January 2022 sentenced a 48-year-old man to death for the rape of a six-year-old girl in Bihar’s Araria.
JANUARY 27, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Matthew Reeveswas executed on January 27
43, Black
JANUARY 27, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Donald Anthony Grant, 46, Black, was executed
JANUARY 27, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Capital Punishment, 2020 Statistics
Death Row Below 2,500 First Time in 29 Years
JANUARY 27, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mir Soltan Amiri executed in Urmia on January 27
On drug-related charges
JANUARY 27, 2022AlabamaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Alabama. Cory Maples’ death sentenced tossed out
JANUARY 26, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WIFE, THREE CHILDREN
An antiterrorism court on 20 January 2022 awarded death sentence to a convict for murdering his wife, two minor children and a minor brother-in-law over domestic issues in 2017.
JANUARY 26, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: MAN GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER AFTER RAPE
A Chattogram court on 20 January 2022 sentenced a man to death for killing a woman after rape at Sitakunda upazila in Chattogram in 2017.
- JANUARY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Brothers Yasser and Younes Nourizadeh Receive Death Penalty
For Drug Offences
JANUARY 26, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Ghaneh and Akbar... executed in Shiraz on January 26
JANUARY 25, 2022KenyaDEATH PENALTYKENYA: MAN WHO VIOLENTLY STOLE PHONES, CASH SENTENCED TO DEATH
A man accused of using excessive force to steal mobile phones and some cash from two city businessmen has been sentenced to death, Nairobi News reported on 21 January 2022.
JANUARY 25, 2022BangladeshDEATH PENALTYBANGLADESH: 5 SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING WOMAN IN MADARIPUR
A Madaripur court on 24 January 2022 sentenced five people to death for killing a housewife at the Rajoir upazila of the district in 2002.
JANUARY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Qarchak Prison, a Nightmare for Women Prisoners
JANUARY 25, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Iran-HRM year end report
More than 365 prisoners have been executed in 2021 in Iran
JANUARY 24, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: BENUE STATE GOVERNOR ORTOM GRANTS AMNESTY TO 50 CONVICTS
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has granted amnesty to 50 convicts serving various jail terms across the country.
JANUARY 24, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Narges Mohammadi sentenced to eight years imprisonment and 70 lashes
Prominent human rights defender
- JANUARY 24, 2022Myanmar (Burma)DEATH PENALTY
MYANMAR: TWO PROMINENT ACTIVISTS SENTENCED TO DEATH
Two prominent political activists in military-ruled Myanmar have been sentenced to death on suspicion of being involved in terrorist activities, a military television station reported 21 January 2022.
- JANUARY 23, 2022Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTY
PAPUA NEW GUINEA REPEALS DEATH PENALTY 30 YEARS AFTER REINTRODUCING IT
The National Parliament of Papua New Guinea announced on 20 January 2022 the abolition of the death penalty for all crimes in the country, 30 years after its reintroduction.
JANUARY 23, 2022IndiaDEATH PENALTYINDIA: TWO SISTERS ON DEATH ROW SPARED THE NOOSE BY BOMBAY HC
Observing that state machinery showed “laxity and indifference” in deciding their mercy plea, the Bombay High Court, in Maharashtra state,n on 18 January 2022 commuted the death sentences awarded to sisters Renuka Shinde and Seema Gavit to life imprisonme
- JANUARY 20, 2022United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: DEATH SENTENCE UPHELD FOR DRUG ADDICT ACCUSED OF KILLING HIS FATHER WITH 36 STAB WOUNDS
The Abu Dhabi Court of Cassation has upheld the death sentence for an Emirati man convicted of the premeditated murder of his father.
- JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Edris Gomshad-Zehi executed in Zahedan Prison on January 20
- JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Three men executed in Zabol Prison on January 20
Mohammad Amin Dehmardeh, Parviz Akbarirad and Jamaleddin Gargij
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- JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 6 men executed in Zahedan Prison on January 20
Khodanazar Kakar, Hosseinali Khomr, Abdolhamid Esmailzehi, Dadshah Sarani, Ataollah Barahouyi and Mehrollah Dehmardeh
- JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Yazdani executed in Rasht Prison on January 20
- JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Zabol on January 20
Parviz Akbari Rud, Jamaleddin Gorgij and Dadshah Sarani
JANUARY 20, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: WOMAN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR TEXTING CARICATURES OF PROPHET
A Muslim woman was sentenced to death in Pakistan on 19 January 2022 after being convicted of sending a blasphemous text message and caricatures of Prophet Muhammad via WhatsApp, a court said.
JANUARY 20, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eshagh Mohammadamin executed in Isfahan on January 20
JANUARY 20, 2022TexasDEATH PENALTYUSA - Texas. Clinton Young released on bond
after almost 20 years on death row
- JANUARY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - 3 men executed in Ilam prison on January 19
Hamed Manouchehri, Sobhan Shohani and Mohammad Karim-Nezhad
- JANUARY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Ali Jomeh Mohammadi executed on January 19
JANUARY 19, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: SOLDIER SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING YOUNG SIBLINGS
The military court of the Somali Armed Forces on 4 January 2022 sentenced to death a soldier for the murder of two siblings Zakariye and Sowdo.
JANUARY 19, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: EKITI COURT SENTENCES EX-SOLDIER, OTHER TO DEATH FOR ARMED ROBBERY
An Ekiti State High Court sitting in Ado Ekiti on 17 January 2022 sentenced a 36-year-old former soldier, Olasoji Damilola and 32-year-old Benson Koiki to death by hanging for armed robbery.
JANUARY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Shahrokh Khodadadi, 16-year-old boy, killed in a fight
Quarrel between the families of victim and of executed inmate
JANUARY 19, 2022ChinaDEATH PENALTYCHINA: 2 TO SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SMUGGLING DRUGS TO TAIWAN
A Chinese court has sentenced 2 people to death for attempting to smuggle 400 kilograms of methamphetamine by sea from Southeast Asia to Taiwan, state media reported on 12 January 2022.
JANUARY 19, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Eghbal Mastoufi and Houshang Khan Mohammadi executed in Khorramabad on January 19
- JANUARY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Parviz Khodadadi executed in Dehdasht on January 18
- JANUARY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Sajjad ... executed at Adelabad Prison on January 18
JANUARY 18, 2022NigeriaDEATH PENALTYNIGERIA: PRISONS IN 10 STATES HOLD 80% OF COUNTRY’S DEATH ROW INMATES
Correctional centers across Nigeria house 3,602 death-row inmates, based on data obtained by the Premium Times newspaper.
JANUARY 18, 2022Papua New GuineaDEATH PENALTYPAPUA NEW GUINEA: PRIME MINISTER JAMES MARAPE SAYS HIS GOVERNMENT IS DOING AWAY WITH THE DEATH PENALTY
Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says his government is doing away with the death penalty and those now on death row will instead serve life sentences without parole, PNG newspaper The National reported on 12 January 2022.
JANUARY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Nobel laureates call for the immediate release of Ali Younesi and Amirhossein Moradi
JANUARY 18, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Year-end report by the KHRN
NGO focuses the Kurdish minority in Iran
- JANUARY 17, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTY
SOMALIA: FORMER SPF OFFICER EXECUTED FOR KILLING CIVILIAN IN GEDO REGION
A former Somali Police Force officer was executed on 10 January 2022 for killing a civilian in Gedo region.
JANUARY 17, 2022TunisiaDEATH PENALTYTUNISIA: NINE SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING ARMY SERGEANT
A Tunisian court has sentenced to death nine militants accused of having beheaded a soldier in 2016, a murder claimed by the Daesh group, media reported on 14 January 2022.
JANUARY 17, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FIVE SENTENCED TO DEATH IN ABDUCTION CASE IN GILGIT
Gilgit anti-terrorism court on 13 Janury 2022 sentenced five accused to death for kidnapping and torturing a youth and posting his obscene videos on social media.
JANUARY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Valijan Rahmi executed in Qom Central Prison on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Unidentified man executed in Karaj on an uncertain date
JANUARY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolbaset Rigi executed in Zahedan Central Prison on January 17
JANUARY 17, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Abdolghafar Cheshmdam-Gargij executed in Zahedan on January 17
JANUARY 16, 2022SomaliaDEATH PENALTYSOMALIA: FORMER SNA OFFICER EXECUTED BY FIRING SQUAD FOR KILLING CIVILIAN IN BELEDHAWO
A former Somali National Army officer was executed by firing squad on the morning of 11 January 2022 for killing a civilian in Belet Xaawo district in Gedo region.
JANUARY 16, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Moslem Aghamirzayi executed in Khorramabad on January 16
JANUARY 14, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Supreme Court overturns conviction and death sentence of Joe Simpson
JANUARY 14, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Six Political Prisoners on Dry Hunger Strike in Evin Prison
Sadegh Omidi, Hamid Haj Jafar Kashani, Mahmoud Ali Naghi, Peyman Pourdad, Ali Asghar Hassanirad and Mehdi Darini
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- JANUARY 13, 2022DEATH PENALTY
HOC RECOMMENDS 'NO DEATH PENALTY: ESSAY ON THE HUMAN DIGNITY OF THE GUILTY' BY ALFREDO DE FRANCESCO
Hands off Cain recommends the essay entitled "NO DEATH PENALTY: ESSAY ON THE HUMAN DIGNITY OF THE GUILTY" by Alfredo De Francesco, English edition.
JANUARY 13, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: FOUR SENTENCED TO DEATH OVER 2021 JOHAR TOWN EXPLOSION
A pakistani anti-terrorism court on 12 January 2022 sentenced four men to death for their involvement in a car bombing last year that killed four people near the residence of Jamat ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed in Johar Town.
- JANUARY 13, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Jafar Salehi, Abdolrahim Sargolzayi and Shahin Khosravi executed in Isfahan
On January 13
JANUARY 13, 2022FloridaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Florida. Supreme Court overturns conviction, death sentence of Peter Avsenew
- JANUARY 12, 2022United Arab EmiratesDEATH PENALTY
UAE: TWO FILIPINO NATIONALS SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR SELLING DRUGS OVER WHATSAPP
The Criminal Court of Abu Dhabi has sentenced two Filipino nationals to death for the crime of possession and dealing in narcotics and psychotropic substances, Khaleej Times reported on 4 January 2022.
JANUARY 12, 2022Sri LankaDEATH PENALTYSRI LANKA: PRISON CHIEF GETS DEATH PENALTY FOR MASSACRE
A top Sri Lankan prison official was sentenced to death on 12 January 2022 over the killing of 27 inmates in an execution-style massacre that attracted international condemnation.
JANUARY 12, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - 8 prisoners executed on January 12 at Raja’i Shahr Prison
Iranian authorities executed 8 prisoners at down on Wednesday, January 12.
JANUARY 12, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTYUSA - Oklahoma. Execution doctor paid $15,000 each time death penalty carried out
- JANUARY 12, 2022OklahomaDEATH PENALTY
USA - Oklahoma. Supreme Court lets stand decision that McGirt not retroactive
JANUARY 11, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: MAN WHO BEHEADED ANOTHER IN ISMAILIA SENTENCED TO DEATH AFTER GRAND MUFTI'S ADVISE SOUGHT
Ismailia Criminal Court on 5 January 2022 sentenced to death Abdel Rahman Nazmy, known as “Dabour” over charges of brutally murdering a citizen and attempting to kill two others in a crowded street in Ismailia.
JANUARY 11, 2022PakistanDEATH PENALTYPAKISTAN: CHRISTIAN MAN SENTENCED TO DEATH ON BLASPHEMY CHARGES
A Christian man on 6 January 2022 was sentenced to death in Pakistan a decade after he was charged with blasphemy.
- JANUARY 11, 2022MoroccoDEATH PENALTY
MOROCCO: CASSATION COURT CONFIRMS DEATH PENALTY FOR RAPIST, KILLER OF 11-YEAR OLD ADNANE
The Court of Cassation in Rabat confirmed on 5 January 2022 the death penalty sentence for the 24-year-old man who raped and killed 11-year-old Adnane Bouchouf in Tangier in September 2020.
JANUARY 11, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Farhang and Yasser Aliollahi executed in Zanjan Prison on January 11
For drugs
JANUARY 10, 2022RussiaDEATH PENALTYRUSSIA: CHAIR OF COSTITUTIONAL COURT DISCUSSES RETURN OF DEATH PENALTY
The moratorium on capital punishment imposed in Russia in 1997 after the country joined the Council of Europe could be lifted in the future, the chairman of the country’s Constitutional Court said on 28 December 2021.
JANUARY 10, 2022South SudanDEATH PENALTYSOUTH SUDAN: MAN HANGED FOR SLAUGHTERING THREE CHILDREN
Babu Emmanuel Lokiri, the young man accused of killing the three siblings at Rock City in Juba on 1st August 2020, was hanged on 7 January 2022 afternoon in Juba.
JANUARY 10, 2022EgyptDEATH PENALTYEGYPT: COURT OF CASSATION COMMUTES DEATH PENALTY AGAINST SIX IN 2016 TERRORIST ATTACK NEAR PYRAMIDS
Egypt’s Court of Cassation on 2 January 2022 commuted the death penalty against six defendants charged with being involved in a terrorist attack on the Three Pyramids Hotel in Giza in 2016.
JANUARY 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Juvenile Offender Mostafa Emdadi on Death Row
JANUARY 10, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Heydar Ghorbani officially died for “unknown reasons”
Executed on December 19
JANUARY 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Rasoul Paghadam executed in Qazvin Prison on January 9
For murder
JANUARY 9, 2022IranDEATH PENALTYIRAN - Mohammad Javad Vafaei, International Call To Save His Life
Political Prisoner Sentenced to Death
JANUARY 9, 2022United StatesDEATH PENALTYUSA - Guantánamo Bay, 20 years on
- JANUARY 4, 2022DEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: KANO COURT SENTENCES MAN TO DEATH BY HANGING FOR KILLING NEIGHBOUR
A Kano State High Court 15, sitting at Miller road, on 14 December 2021, sentenced one Balarabe Ahmad to death by hanging for stabbing his neighbour to death.
JANUARY 3, 2022DEATH PENALTYKUWAIT: DEATH PENALTY UPHELD AGAINST EGYPTIAN FOR KILLING SPONSOR
Kuwait’s Court of Appeals has upheld the death sentence issued earlier by a lower court against an Egyptian man after he was found guilty of premeditated murder of his Kuwaiti sponsor, Gulf News reported on 28 December 2021.
- JANUARY 2, 2022DEATH PENALTY
NIGERIA: ONDO STATE GOVERNOR COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE OF SIX CONVICTS TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT
Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has ordered the release of four inmates serving various terms of imprisonment from the correctional centres in the state, while six convicts sentenced to death by hanging were commuted to life imprisonment to mark t
- JANUARY 2, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Mohammad Salarzehi executed in Shiraz on January 2
For drug-related offences
- JANUARY 1, 2022IranDEATH PENALTY
IRAN - Report: Iran killed 52 Kurd border porters in 2021
Hengaw says
JANUARY 1, 2022DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Javanehha's Year End Report: Record of suppression
At least 350 executions, 3800 detentions and 112 state murders
JANUARY 1, 2022DEATH PENALTYIRAN - Jalil Eshterak executed in Zabol on January 1